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Google Chrome 25 Will Serve Searches Over SSL From the Omnibox For All Users

Posted by timothy on from the defaults-matter dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google on Friday announced yet another security improvement for Chrome 25. In addition to killing silent extension installation, the omnibox in Google's browser will send all searches over a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connection. Chrome already does this for users who are signed in to Google: when they search from the address bar, their queries are sent over HTTPS. As of Chrome 25, however, the same will happen for users who aren't signed in to Google."

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  1. SSL for searches is a good idea by dubner · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Using SSL for searches will prevent tragedies such as this.

    (Not the wife and mistress teaming up which can sometimes lead to tragedy. I'm talking about the IT department discovering searches for making poison.)

    --
    Joe

  2. Re:Google values privacy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I know you're just trying to get a cheap laugh from the paranoid crowd, but this is actually one of the best arguments about why Google will never sell your data to anyone. Analyzing it to make their own services better is the most valuable use for it, so they'd be stupid to let it out of the company.